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Sales Account Manager

NORTHERN ENGRAVING CORPORATION · Sparta Division - Sparta, WI 54656

External listingfull-time7 months ago

About The Role

## Description

**Purpose:**

The Sales Account Manager serves as a strategic liaison between the company and customers, maintains in-depth customer relationships, explores business opportunities, optimizes cooperation processes, maximizes customer lifetime value, and drives dual growth of the company's business revenue and profitability.

## Qualifications

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**

  • Establish and maintain long-term strategic cooperative relationships with customers; conduct regular customer visits to gain in-depth understanding of customers' business plans, production capacity needs, and financial status, and accurately identify business opportunities.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for customers; respond promptly to customer inquiries, needs, and complaints; coordinate with internal departments such as Engineering, Production, Procurement, and Finance to provide end-to-end solutions and follow up on closure.
  • Collect customer business information, including Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) timelines, Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA) requirements, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) specifications.
  • Responsible for estimated Annual Usage (EAU) budgets and procurement processes. Establish customer information files and update them dynamically.
  • Lead customer pricing negotiations and payment terms; develop competitive commercial proposals and pricing systems to balance customer needs and company profits.
  • Identify, explore, and implement business opportunities that can improve NBHX's financial performance.
  • Accurately identify short-term (within 1 year), medium-term (1-3 years), and long-term (over 3 years) business opportunities and needs of customers and the market; take the lead in formulating commercial business plans for corresponding phases, clarifying objectives, implementation paths, resource requirements, and expected returns.
  • Promote the implementation of commercial business plans; track progress regularly, analyze deviations, and adjust and optimize strategies in a timely manner to ensure the achievement of plans.
  • Prepare and maintain customer price breakdowns and tooling cost breakdowns; collaborate with the Finance department to follow up on accounts receivable collection and resolve various disputes and claims related to commercial cooperation.
  • Submit annual customer cooperation forecasts to support NBHX's factory budget formulation and resource allocation.
  • Participate in new project cooperation throughout the entire process; support engineering design, prototype validation, mass production, and other phases; coordinate and handle commercial matters related to engineering changes.
  • Coordinate cross-departmental collaboration matters in customer commercial cooperation (including production scheduling, supply chain support, tooling development, cost control, etc.) to ensure smooth cooperation processes.
  • Handle sudden issues and escalated customer complaints in customer cooperation; formulate preventive measures to reduce cooperation risks.
  • Efficiently handle daily service matters such as customer Request for Quotation (RFQs) supply chain coordination, and factory relocation docking.
  • Maintain historical data of customer cooperation (including price records, commercial negotiation minutes, cooperation change documents, etc.) to ensure data integrity and traceability.

**Skills and Qualifications:**

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Business Management, or related fields required; Master's degree preferred. Professional certifications in commercial negotiation or project management (e.g., PMP) preferred.
  • Prefer five (5) years of experience in customer engagement, commercial negotiation, or project management in the manufacturing industry (preferably Nameplate, Appliance, or related fields).
  • Excellent communication and customer relationship skills, commercial negotiation skills, and problem-solving abilities; proficient in business opportunity identification, commercial plan formulation, and implementation; with a proven track record of successful customer development or profitability improvement.
  • Proficient in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and other relevant office software; strong data analysis and report writing capabilities.
  • Ability to work under pressure, adapt to a fast-paced work environment, and work overtime flexibly as needed.
  • Excellent cross-departmental collaboration awareness, communication skills, and teamwork spirit; meticulous attention to details.
  • Experience in customer management of large manufacturing enterprises; familiar with industry supply chain and production processes.

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